Art Quote by Robert Genn

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect…

— Todd Walker

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

— Mason Cooley

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

— Ezra Pound

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

— Laurie Simmons

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

— e. e. cummings

The work of the artist is not so much what you say or what you know, it's recognizing what you know. That's what life…

— Sylvia Plachy

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne